Press Releases
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CARIFESTA IS BACK; SURINAME WILL HOST
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is now a fait accompli. Suriname will host the 11th staging of the Caribbean premier festival of the creative and performing arts in 2013; this after their first successful hosting in 2003. Dr Hilary Brown, CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager for Culture and Community Development, made this announcement at the 21st Meeting…
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CARICOM TO CONSULT ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat has embarked on a series of stakeholder consultations in five Member States – Belize, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines – to solicit feedback on the draft CARICOM Youth Development Action Plan (CYDAP) 2012 – 2017. The CYDAP which was developed in a consultative process gives expression…
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STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS, 1 DECEMBER 2011
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins millions of people around the world in commemorating World AIDS Day – 1 December 2011. This year’s commemoration is appropriately themed “Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections; Zero Discrimination; and Zero AIDS Related Deaths” calls on all of us to move beyond the traditional routine responses that have…
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TAKE ACTION TO ACHIEVE ELIMINATION OF HIV – CARICOM SG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General has sounded a call to action toward achieving the elimination of HIV and AIDS, in the Caribbean and the world. “World AIDS Day and its focus on “Zero” is an opportunity for all of us – individuals, communities and political leaders, to take action and…
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PANCAP CAN ACHIEVE UNAIDS’ THREE ZEROS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) is well poised to undertake UNAIDS’ challenge of “Getting to Zero: Zero Discrimination, Zero New Infections and Zero AIDS-related deaths.” In his World AIDS Day 2011 message, The Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and PANCAP Chair said it was…
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CARICOM ICT STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN GOOD TO GO
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than 30 senior officials with responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) along with development partners, knocked heads and hands together to fine-tune short, medium and long term strategic actions distilled from the five strategic objectives of the comprehensive draft Implementation Plan for the CARICOM Regional Digital Development…
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STATEMENT BY THE HON. DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTERS OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS AND LEAD HEAD OF GO
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Today we join our PANCAP brothers and sisters in commemorating World AIDS Day and remembering those we have lost to this dreadful disease. We reiterate our commitment to UNAIDS’ vision of zero discrimination, zero new HIV infections, and zero AIDS related deaths through universal access to effective HIV prevention, treatment care and support and…
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SPEECH TO CBMP 5TH ANNIVERSARY MEDIA LEADERS SUMMIT JULIETTE BYNOE-SUTHERLAND, DIRECTOR OF PANCAP
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is a privilege to bring greetings on behalf of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS at CBMP’s 5th Anniversary Media Leaders Summit. Since its inception 2001, PANCAP has been seeking to work with partners such as yourselves in the media to galvanize the regional response to the HIV epidemic. I begin…
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Statement By The Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Ministers Of St. Kitts And Nevis And Lead Head Of Government With Responsibility For Human Resource Development, Health And Aids On The Occasion Of World Aids Day 2011
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Today we join our PANCAP brothers and sisters in commemorating World AIDS Day and remembering those we have lost to this dreadful disease. We reiterate our commitment to UNAIDS’ vision of zero discrimination, zero new HIV infections, and zero AIDS related deaths through universal access to effective HIV prevention, treatment care and support and…
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MEDIA VITAL TO ELIMINATING HIV AND AIDS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The media and its leaders are vital to eliminating the HIV and AIDS pandemic in the Caribbean and should cease using methods which sensationalise and set back regional efforts in combating the disease. This was the view of Ms. Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland, Director, Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), who was at the…
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